The indictment of @TheMatthewKeys is just latest in long line of prosecutorial overkill aimed at online activists politico.com/blogs/media/20…
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Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 14, 2013Guardian columnist and blogger Glenn Greenwald’s tweet links to what is essentially a straight news story summarizing the Department of Justice’s case against Matthew Keys. That’s a shame, because we’re curious why Keys, Reuters’ deputy social media editor, is lumped in with “online activists.” Unless there’s a lot more to the story, that designation seems to be overkill in itself.
@ggreenwald @TheMatthewKeys Do you know why Mr. Keys wanted to do this? Did he think Trib was publishing untruths?—
JackMack (@jackthecat11) March 14, 2013
@ggreenwald @TheMatthewKeys Less activist, more journalist with this indictment.—
Dan Kaplan (@DanKaps) March 14, 2013
@ggreenwald @TheMatthewKeys It's not prosecutorial overkill to indict people for destructive hacking, it is a crime. Professorial overkill.—
CatherineFitzpatrick (@catfitz) March 14, 2013
@ggreenwald @TheMatthewKeys It's antithetical to human rights Glenn to claim that #Anonymous hacking is legitimate. It's not. Against FoE.—
CatherineFitzpatrick (@catfitz) March 14, 2013
@ggreenwald @TheMatthewKeys it seems he did it for petty revenge reasons & NOT activism, am I missing something?—
(@ParamedicX) March 15, 2013
Andy Carvin, senior strategist at NPR, was another journalist lamenting the news.
@TheMatthewKeys Hang in there. And know there are a lot of people who are there for you.—
Andy Carvin (@acarvin) March 15, 2013
@acarvin Don't think it's right to ignore that, if true, giving access was 100% immature. I like Matthew, too, but that could've cost jobs.—
Luke Morris (@LukeMorris) March 15, 2013
@LukeMorris I believe in innocence until proven guilty.—
Andy Carvin (@acarvin) March 15, 2013
